You are my sunshine,

My only sunshine,

You make me happy…

…when skies are gray.

You’ll never know, dear,

How much I love you!

So, please don’t take…

…my sunshine away.

Happy 1st birthday, Baby Boy!

You make our days so much brighter!

Love you forever and ever,

Mommy & Daddy

I’ve got a lot of posts I could write… should write… want to write…

But right now, the only thing I can seem to think about is doing this (minus the teddy bear):

Hope you all have a good night resting well in the assurance that kid updates, a Frozen birthday party, and other news are on your way as soon as I can manage. Sweet dreams!!!

I know I’m long overdue to write a Caleb update with all his cute weekly pictures so you can see how he’s growing up. But part of the problem is that he is changing, and FAST! So quickly in fact, that unless he’s sleeping, I barely get to sit down.

It started about six weeks ago when he began pulling himself around with his arms. He’d scoot about the living room and end up wedged between the wall and the chair in the corner chewing on whatever cords or cables he encountered…

Then he got a little more proficient in his army crawl and suddenly the magazine bin behind the couch was under constant attack…

A few weeks later, it was up onto his knees at every chance, which is when he discovered the cookbook shelf…

And that Mommy sometimes leaves cupboards open when she’s cooking or unloading groceries…

Then a week or so later he’d decided that being on his knees wasn’t high enough, so naturally he started pulling up onto anything and everything…

He’s still not crawling on his hands and knees, but his army crawl is fast and fluid enough to make any soldier envious. He uses that to his advantage when he zips around the living room, dining room, and kitchen with his favorite toy hammer, banging on everything in sight…

So you see, I haven’t had much time for writing because I’ve been busy babyproofing my main floor. And now that I’m done with that level, I’d better begin on the second floor, since just this morning Caleb managed to climb up four stairs completely on his own before falling backwards into my waiting arms.

Hopefully I’ll at least get a long update written before he starts shaving. But wait, no, we’ve already hit that milestone too…

Oh well! I expect that someday I’ll get the chance to write regularly.

Now you’ll have to excuse me while I go rescue Herr Caleb (aka Mommy’s Little Monkey) off the stairs yet again.